@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4483,
            	author={Belke, Ansgar H. and Bordon, Ingo and Melnykovska, Inna and Schweickert, Rainer},
            	title={Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries},
            	year={2009},
	month={Oct},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4483},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4483},
	abstract={This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and NATO clearly matter for institutional development. In addition, path-dependency determined by cultural norms may be overcome by economic liberalization while foreign aid seems to hamper institutional development.},
	keywords={institutional change;transition economies;NATO;EU;governance},
            }